Brams77

Here some of the stuff I gathered... For this build, the celluloid dots.. And a in pretty nice shape late '65 pickguard with some lovely figure to it;)

Hi I wanted to share this with all of you. As in a few days I'll be receiving my replica/restauration project from great Slovakian luthier Igor Keller. I had supplied Igor with almost all original parts, detailed pics every thinkable info I gathered over 3 to 4 years of these early '66 bound and dots basses.. It took about one and a half years to perfect but the result is quite stunning, and worth the wait! I saw Igors work on Ebay a few years prior and was very impressed with what he had up at the time. These where very nicely done remakes of early '60s jazz necks and those led me to his website where he had some crazy cool 7 string hollowbody guitars up. Anyways a relationship grew from there and It turend out Igor was very interested to work on a perfect '66 J replica and using original parts to get it right. He actually had made xrays (thru a local vet) of both an original '66 neck and a '71 which I had supplied him to get the trussrod route just right.. Something I havent ever seen aswell, sure was fun to experience that! I also had supplied Igor with some celluloid dot material which is very close to the real thing, it was crazy hard to get stuff. Then Igor appeared to have some Brazillian rosewood stacked away in his lumber stash, prolly had it when it still was legal to have... so we used that on the fretboard to be again as period correct as possible.. Not that all 66 jazzes had Brazillian rosewood boards but many had.. Anyways... I will update this thread with all the small details between this bass and the original parts, so everyone can see what a great job Igor did.. I'm really pleased as these pics where sent to me last week:

...and ths is what my luthier is trying to replicate:

Sure I have... This is how I bought it;) It was sanded very lightly and not sanded under the pg, as you can see, and also the cavities where left in tact. All hardware and pickguard were in exeptional condition making it a great bass to get refinned, very happy with that find, and I got it from someone in Australia.. Thats how far my bass network stretches pretty wild huh:P If restore is your thing then replica's might be too;) I have been waiting almost two years for my luthier to make me a perfect replica 66 bass, he even xrayed an original '66 neck to get everything exactly the same internally also it features a Brazillian rosewood board.. It's almost finished cant wait even tho iTS not a precision..

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I am a true precision bass guy.. Every other bass that I have has to have a sound I can dial in that reminds of that. I have owned a ton of p basses and currently have two which I am really over the moon about.. Here's the list of what I owned and eventually sold 1965 L serial plate sunburst refinned in oly white 1970 all original in oly white 2002 CS Pino Palladino signature 2005 Bob Glaub skyline with Klein Pino pickups 2011 Roadworn '57 reissue 1982 JV '57 reissue domestic (very early very rare) I currently have two P basses that both are quite exeptional in tone and playability. 1962 Precision Bass currently being restored in it's original sunburst this one has the radiused board not the slab just like the bass of James Jamerson 2013 '63 reissue in seminole red (I don't see any difference in Dakota red) this is without a doubt the best reissue fender has ever made and it's the closest copy to my '62 In feel. Sound clip of my '62 with GHS flatwounds https://soundcloud.com/valar-music/astronaut-4-26-13 Sound clip of my '63 reissue with Labella flatwounds https://soundcloud.com/bram-schoonderbeek/american-vintage-63-reissue-precision-bass